So how long until Susan G. Komen reverses themselves and Karen Handel resigns...

[wyldwolf]

... to, umm, spend more time with her family?

[Justice wanted]

1. Not soon enough for me.

[Skinner]

2. I think, at this point, it may be too late to reverse the decision.

They have pissed off half their supporters. If they reverse it now, they'll piss off the other half.

[Horse with no Name]

3. I think the fragility of the relationship was exposed

I can't see this car being backed out of the ditch.

In order for women to be able to trust in this relationship, there has to be a positive symbiosis. That has been destroyed. However, I do see PP coming through this as a stronger entity while SGK declines dramatically.

This very well could turn into one of the best things that has happened to PP in a long time.

[yardwork]

12. I agree about Planned Parenthood. Now a lot more people know about all the good they do.

[rfranklin]

4. That will only happen if the corporate sponsors are discouraged from donating...

huge sums of money for the privilege of piggybacking their products on the backs of breast cancer victims.

[Missy Vixen]

9. How many more will actively avoid October's "pinkwashing"?

If people want this to stick, pick five corporate sponsors off the exhaustive list posted here yesterday, and write them a snail mail letter.

Businesses are afraid of snail mail. It means that someone was pissed off enough to find out who their CEO is, write a letter, and find an address to mail it to. In other words, they're serious.

I'll be writing my letters this afternoon. I will not buy or use ANY product or service that donates to SGKF.

[Horse with no Name]

14. My family has a vested interest in Yoplait Yogurt

They already received my letter.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

16. Yes. Corp sponsors need to understand that association with Komen is now toxic to their brand. nt

[abbeyco]

5. Don't want to be Debbie Downer, but

I don't think that will happen because they now feel that they have a Christian and religious duty to this cause. I think they're going to stay the course, probably until the first quarter results are released.

Should lots of partners, like Yoplait and others, start to bail, then they might change their minds. I just see these rock-ribbed rethug rangers as now having a "new purpose" behind their disgusting trashing of the SGK name.

[Javaman]

6. the damage is done.

she could resign, move to Africa to live in poverty, subsist on a diet of crickets and do charity work for the rest of her life and no one would forgive her.

komen is dead as a viable entity.

[yardwork]

13. It's not just Handel. The founder, Nancy Brinker, is the one who made these decisions.

It's not that SGK suddenly went right-wing. It turns out that they've been right-wing and disgustingly corporate from the very beginning.

[Javaman]

17. so in other words, they just stopped the charade.

that's fine, because my donations are now going to Planned Parenthood instead the komen.

[obamanut2012]

19. Yup, the mask slipped

[RainDog]

7. I think this has provided a valuable lesson to right wingers

I hope the organization folds.

Let people give money for research to organizations that don't hate women, other than their tatas.

[yellowcanine]

10. There were a lot of questions about the "Pink Ribbon" campaign before this - whether it

was way too commercialized, the conflicts of interest and the effectiveness in fighting breast cancer. Check out http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/ .

[yardwork]

11. Not going to happen. Komen also pulled $12 million in cancer research funding from universities.

They've pulled all funding that is in any way connected with stem cell research. They've positioned themselves on the extreme far-right religious ideology and there's no coming back from that now.

[Sheepshank]

20. but but but

was SGK's withdrawal of funding from PP based on some policy about Congressional investigations? What was the "named excuse" for pulling funding for university research?

[Serial Mom]

22. but didn't drop funding Penn State!!!

Under investigation ....

[Cognitive_Resonance]

15. Hardened ideologues are behind the decision. More likely they choose to go down in flames. nt

[obamanut2012]

18. A long, long time

[Spazito]

21. Their credibility is already completely gone...

with everyone, except the rabid right, no matter what they might try to do to mitigate the enormous damage to their 'brand'. I know I will never again donate a penny to them or support any activity in which they are involved. I will also be letting anyone who will listen what the Susan G Komen charity REALLY stands for.

More and more light is coming out about them and it is not pretty.

[wyldwolf]

23. oh, about 90 minutes to reverse themselves. I give Karen Handel two weeks and she's gone

Komen for the Cure reverses decision to cut Planned Parenthood funding


http://www.dallasnews.com/incoming/20120203-komen-for-the-cure-reverses-decision-to-cut-planned-parenthood-funding.ece

[bigtree]

24. heh

good call

[abbeyco]

25. Happily I was WAY wrong!! Breaking on MSNBC that SGK will reverse their decision

And with my crow, I do like some tarragon butter.

Thank god I was completely wrong - I couldn't be more happy!

[wyldwolf]

26. never doubt the wyld wolf!

[yardwork]

27. You weren't completely wrong. I see nothing about them reversing the stem cell research decision.

SGK cut $12 million in actual cancer research to universities. Are they going to reverse that?